Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
AMBROSE BIERCEFear has no brains; it is an idiot.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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